Master Behavior, Neurobiology and Cognition (878)

Compulsory Modules (25 ECTS)

MVN 1 Basic Module Behaviour, Neurobiology and Cognition (15 ECTS)

• 300558 VO Animal Communication

MVN 2 Fundamentals of Scientific Research in Behaviour, Neurobiology and Cognition (10 ECTS)

• 300011 VO Methods in Behavioral Sciences
• 300049 VO Methods in Neurobiology
• 300052 SE [ en ] Seminar for Masters, Diploma and PhD-students in Biology of Cognition
• 300065 SE Seminar for Masters, Diploma and PhD-students in Neurobiology
• 300300 SE [ en ] Seminar for Masters, Diploma and PhD-students in Animal Behaviour
• 300349 UE [ en ] Methods in Cognitive Biology

Block of Elective Modules Behavior, Neurobiology and Cognition (35 ECTS)

MVN W-1 Behavioural Physiology (10 ECTS)

• 300188 UE Practical course in Behavioural Biology, Gruenau - (social mechanisms) at the Konrad Lorenz Forschungsstelle in Gruenau

MVN W-2 Behavioural Endocrinology (5 ECTS)

• 300081 VO [ en ] Behavioural Endocrinology
• 300140 VO [ en ] Scientific contributions to behavioural endocrinology

MVN W-3 Reproduction and Biological Rhythms (5 ECTS)

• 300074 SE [ en ] Advanced topics in courtship behaviour and sexual selection
• 300144 VO Mammalogy

MVN W-4 Sound Communication in Animals (10 ECTS)

• 300119 UE Bioacoustic Course

MVN W-5 Animal Communication (5 ECTS)

• 300016 VO Animal Vocalization - Sound Production, Reception and Communication

MVN W-6 Social Mechanisms (5 ECTS)

• 300010 VO Social Systems - Social Systems in vertebrates with special emphasis on mechanismus - behaviour - brain-personality-stress, etc.
• 300020 SE Topical Problems in Behavioral Research
• 300134 SE Ethological and ecoethological Seminar (Grünau)
• 300600 VO [ de en ] Vertebrate Social Systems II

MVN W-7 Human Animal Relationship (5 ECTS)

MVN W-8 Neurobiology for Advanced Students (10 ECTS)

• 300147 UE Neurobiology: Electrophysical recordings from chemorecptors of insects
• 300646 UE Neurobiology: Visual Systems
• 301904 UE [ en ] Neurophysiology and behavior of C. elegans

MVN W-9 Neuroanatomy (10 ECTS)

• 300234 UE [ en ] Neural Circuit Analyses in the Drosophila Brain

MVN W-10 Actual Research Topics in Neurobiology (5 ECTS)

• 300278 SE Current topics in Neurobiology
• 300675 SE [ de en ] Neurobiology Seminar: Ongoing resarch
• 301906 SE [ en ] Modern approaches in the analysis of neuronal circuits and behavior

MVN W-11 Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology (5 ECTS)

• 300274 VO [ en ] Breaking Symmetry: Organization, Development and Evolution of Brain Lateralization

MVN W-12 Cognition for Advanced Students (10 ECTS)

• 300045 VO Human concept formation and animal categorization
• 300103 SE [ en ] Current topics in cognitive biology 1
• 300154 UE [ en ] Bioacoustics I - Introduction to vertebrate Bioacoustics
• 300352 VO [ en ] Animal Social Cognition

MVN W-13 Cognition Methods (10 ECTS)

Additional Scientific Qualifications for Biologists (30 ECTS)

• 290133 VO [ en ] Wetlands
• 290154 VO [ en ] Terrestrial Ecosystem Ecology
• 300044 VO Ant biology and ecology
• 300092 UE [ de en ] Introduction to Coral Reef Biology
• 300104 UE [ de en ] Hands on Cryopreparation of Biological Samples for Biological Studies
• 300122 VO [ en ] Biology and Evolution of Archaea - Archaea evolution, genetics, cell biology, ecology and biotechnology
• 300139 VO [ de en ] Groundwater Ecology - An Introduction
• 300167 UE Introduction to geometric morphometrics using R
• 300171 UE Writing scientific theses
• 300187 EX Birds on the water
• 300198 VO Climate Change - Biodiversity, Global Change and Climate Policy
• 300220 UE [ de en ] Algal culturing techniques and ecophysiological experiments
• 300323 SE [ de en ] Current Trends in Parasitology - Current parasitological topics, lecture works english slides
• 300371 SE [ en ] New concepts in archaeal and bacterial biology
• 300437 SE+UE [ de en ] Medical-parasitological practice and seminar - (nach Bedarf werden Stunden zu Blöcken zusammengelegt.) Vermittlung von parasitologischen Grundkenntnissen und Praxis in der Mikroskopie

Courses of the Additional Scientific Qualifications for Biologists

• 180184 VO [ de en ] Climate Change and Climate Crisis. Interdisciplinary Perspectives
• 280081 VU [ de en ] MA-ERD-15 Morphology of Functions (PI)
• 280082 VU [ de en ] MA-ERD-15 Methods of Palaeobiology (PI)
• 300009 SE [ de en ] Collection Sciences and Research
• 300016 VO Animal Vocalization - Sound Production, Reception and Communication
• 300021 VO Bioacoustics - theory, equipment
• 300035 VO Soil science for Ecologists
• 300036 VO Biological Invasions - Neobiota and their relevance
• 300058 VO Urban Ecology
• 300062 UE Computer-assisted presentation techniques
• 300063 VO Biodiversity of tropical coral reefs - Introduction into species diversity of tropical reef invertebrates and vertebrates, with special reference to reef conservation and tourism
• 300064 EX Speleological excursions Caves of Austria and neighboring countries
• 300076 VO Applied Limnology - Eutrophication, Pollution, Climate Change
• 300079 VO Australian Fauna - examples of evolution, ecology and biogeography
• 300085 SE [ en ] COSB Colloquium - Vorträge im Center for Organismal Systems Biology
• 300089 UE HTML-Programming for the Internet
• 300105 SE Writer's workshop for biologists - Principles of scientific publication
• 300111 UE Computer applications for biologists
• 300112 SE Current topics in philosophy, theology and biology - Interdisciplinary discussions of current topics in Philosophy, Theology and Biology
• 300118 VO [ en ] Conservation research in international practice - socio-ecological perspectives and implementation
• 300124 VO The birds of Austria - an ecological and conservationbiological overview
• 300148 VO Introduction to Desert Biology. Life communities of subtropical and tropical deserts
• 300149 SE+UE [ de en ] Light and video microscopy in theory and practice (parallel courses)
• 300154 UE [ en ] Bioacoustics I - Introduction to vertebrate Bioacoustics
• 300168 VO Introduction to Biomimetics
• 300169 SE Departmental Seminar Anthropology
• 300180 SE [ en ] Biology of tropical amphibians
• 300197 VO [ en ] Ecology of Marine Polar Systems
• 300202 UE Animal observations in the zoo - Basic practical course in observation of zoo kept animals
• 300218 UE [ de en ] Scanning electron microscopy - techniques and preparations for biologists
• 300221 UE [ de en ] Transmission Electron Microscopy of Cells and Tissues -Techniques and Preparation
• 300241 VO Tropical ecosystems of South and Central America
• 300314 VO Renewable Energies
• 300351 VO Algae in Freshwaters - Ecophysiology with implications for the bio-assessment of aquatic systems and the response to climate change.
• 300390 EX Highlights of palaeontology 1 - excursion
• 300394 VO [ en ] Introduction to molecular techniques
• 300433 VO Medical parasitology - Transfer of basic knowledge
• 300438 SE [ de en ] Seminar in biometry - Basics of biometrical analysis
• 300461 VO Biology and ecology of European amphibians and reptiles
• 300462 SE Phylogeny currently - Actual problems and results in Phylogeny
• 300464 UE Limnetic and marine copepods of Europe - Diversity, systematics and ecology of the copepods of Europe (Microcrustaceans)
• 300466 VO [ de en ] Hygiene-related environmental microbiology: Medical Entomology - Epidemiology of water-borne medical parasites and aquatic vectors
• 300469 UE [ en ] Management and analysis of spatial Data - GIS III - Programming in ArcGIS, QGIS and R
• 300504 SE How to write a scientific paper
• 300517 SE+UE Theory and Application of Confocal Microscopy
• 300527 UE Practical course: molecular phylogeny based on museum specimens
• 300531 SE [ en ] Writing Theses and Articles in English - (parallel courses)
• 300547 EX Excursions to Palaeolithic site
• 300548 SE Mutualistic Interactions of plants and ants
• 300552 VO [ de en ] Physiology and Ecology of Cyanobacteria
• 300657 UE Identification course for aquatic invertebrates - in Central European freshwaters
• 300659 SE [ en ] Limnology Seminar - Current research and ecological concepts
• 300669 VO Management of endangered species - practical species protection in marine and terrestrial ecosystems
• 301138 SE [ en ] Behavior, Rhythms and Neurological Diseases
• 301211 VO General and Molecular Microbiology II
• 301267 VO [ en ] Business in Biotech
• 301465 SE [ en ] Current Trends in Bioanalytical Technologies
• 301565 SE [ de en ] How to protect your creative work
• 301584 UE Project management in science communication